Overview
- Uttar Pradesh’s Khoda police arrested Mani Meraj in Patna’s Anisabad with assistance from local officers, according to officials.
- After preliminary questioning at Gardanibagh police station, he was produced for transit remand and brought to Ghaziabad, ACP Abhishek Srivastava confirmed.
- The complainant, YouTuber Vandana (known as Vannu the Great), alleges drugging, repeated rape under marriage promises, pressure to convert and eat beef, coerced abortion, and financial fraud.
- Meraj’s lawyer, Shivanand Bharti, rejects the accusations as false, describing the matter as a live-in relationship dispute and alleging a defamation conspiracy.
- Ghaziabad police say interrogation is underway, including examination of the alleged religious coercion angle, as scrutiny intensifies given Meraj’s large following and recent film and IPL commentary work.